使发现:三十年的先进技术和仪器在国家科学基金会
Enabling Discoveries: Thirty Years of Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation at the National Science Foundation
摘要:
在其三十多年的历史中,先进技术和仪器(ATI)计划提供了赠款,以支持地面天文学的技术开发和仪器。通过自动化文献评估和深入的文献综述相结合,我们提出了一个调查ATI资助的研究和评估其对天文学和社会的影响。ATI的获奖确认和文献引用统计数据与不支持技术开发的比较天文学资助计划相当。这两个国家科学基金会资助的项目的引文统计数据都超过了一般天文学文献。许多例子表明ATI支持的研究对天文学的重大,长期影响。作为这一影响的一部分,ATI赠款为许多早期职业研究人员提供了获得关键专业经验的机会。然而,技术发展的时间比个人赠款要长。纵向视角表明,对技术和仪器的投资导致了非凡的科学进步。
英文摘要:
Over its more than thirty-year history, the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program has provided grants to support technology development and instrumentation for ground-based astronomy. Through a combination of automated literature assessment and in-depth literature review, we present a survey of ATI-funded research and an assessment of its impact on astronomy and society. Award acknowledgement and literature citation statistics for ATI are comparable to a comparison astronomy grant program that does not support technology development. Citation statistics for both NSF-funded programs exceed those of the general astronomical literature. Numerous examples demonstrate the significant, long term impact of ATI-supported research on astronomy. As part of this impact, ATI grants have provided many early career researchers the opportunity to gain critical professional experience. However, technology development unfolds over a time period that is longer than an individual grant. A longitudinal perspective shows that investments in technology and instrumentation have lead to extraordinary scientific progress.
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